Inaugural Pune Public Policy Festival roundtable event on urban development regulation & data privacy. Practical insights from Anirudh Burman from Carnegie India Dr. Sudhir Mehta Amit Paranjape Vijay Gokhale

XKDR is hosting a hybrid talk "Land without acquisition: A new regime of city expansion" by Anirudh Burman at the XKDR office on 12 July from 16:00- 17:00. The event is open to all but registration is mandatory. Registration link: xkdr.org/event/land-wit…

.Anirudh Burman's review of A. Ravindra's Governing Urban India explores the historical context and current dilemmas facing urban policymakers in India. Check it out: carnegieindia.org/india/ideas-an…

Thankyou Shruti Rajagopalan. It was a pleasure to record this discussion with you!

Listen to Anirudh Burman talk about India's land market issues, reforms, land pooling, eminent domain, and more, with Shruti Rajagopalan on the Ideas of India podcast by Mercatus Center. 🎧 Tune in here ⬇️ mercatus.org/ideasofindia/a…

.Anirudh Burman argues that clear, long-term land use plans are key to solving information asymmetry in agricultural land sales. With good info, buyers and sellers can negotiate proper prices.

.Anirudh Burman discusses the rising land values in growing cities that force urban planners to reconsider inefficient land use. This could lead to more flexible, economic-driven development. However, challenges remain in aligning state capability with market dynamism, as seen in

🎧 The #InterpretingIndia podcast is now on YouTube Music: music.youtube.com/playlist?list=… In the latest episode, Suyash Rai and Ajay Shah discuss India's #fiscal policy, 2024–25 #budget, deficit management, #tax reforms, and much more. Tune in now!

In Episode 26 of our Big Ideas series, Anirudh Burman, Fellow and Associate Research Director at Carnegie India, discusses with XKDR researcher Karthik Suresh the problems of land titling in India and how they can be solved using market-based solutions. youtu.be/02Ejk1a1jcI

In XKDR Forum's Big Ideas series, Anirudh Burman talks with Karthik Suresh about India's land-titling challenges and solutions, including conclusive titling and title insurance. 📺 youtu.be/02Ejk1a1jcI?si…

Farm subsidies “may have led to a 30% over-production of water intensive crops. In the northwestern state of Punjab, rice procurement can potentially account for at least 50% of the groundwater table decline over 34 years”

1/ Today, Carnegie Endowment is releasing the findings of the 2024 Indian American Attitudes Survey, a nationally representative survey of Indian American political attitudes conducted with YouGov. It is a collaboration led by Devesh Kapur, Sumitra Badrinathan + me carnegieendowment.org/research/2024/…

My new working paper for XKDR Forum explores the paradox of rising bank account ownership yet very low usage in India between 2011-2021. What explains this paradox? Could things have been done differently? What can we learn from this experience? To read: xkdr.org/paper/economic…

Interesting Suyash Rai paper evaluating India’s progress on financial inclusion from 2011 to 2021. He finds a paradox: while account ownership surged, account usage remained low. Read the paper here: xkdr.org/paper/economic…

A most engaging discussion today at Pune Public Policy Festival, thanks to Anirudh Burman Ashali and Shri Aseem Gupta, and organisers for giving me a chance to talk about the topic closest to my heart - the intersection of climate change and financial inclusion. Cited work by

Grateful to Shreegireesh Jalihal and the reporters' collective for covering my paper in this report. By linking it to the multidimensional poverty index, they have added another dimension to the analysis. The paper can be found here: xkdr.org/paper/economic…

Cities are complex, decentralised systems where economic, ecological and social dynamics interface. Urban transformations cannot be achieved by simply scripting outcomes for these interactions. ✍️Jaya Dhindaw (Jaya D) & Anirudh Burman (Anirudh Burman) for Business Standard

With deepest sorrow we share the news of the demise of our beloved Dr. Radhika Pandey, eminent economist and the faculty member of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, on 28.06.2025.

A new dataset of commercial cases at the Bom HC and IBC cases at NCLT lends itself to answering Qs on case durations, time to 1st hearing, etc. These Qs are elementary, but are often answered with anecdotes. In a data abundant world, we can do better. 1/2

Announcing upcoming sessions at the GCPP Academic Conference: Anirudh Burman (Anirudh Burman), Head of Policy Research in the Cities Program, World Resources Institute, India, will speak on “The Promise of Land Reuse in India’s Cities.” He will explore how urban land reuse can